Blog Entries tagged 'Book Fairs'

Designing Book Fair Promotional Literature

rkelly

Although your promtoional handouts should have relatively little text - your Book Fair literature should be engaging and informative. The pronotional literature you distribute at your next show will probably be the only part of your press that follows your prospective readership back to their home. Make sure that your literature is well-designed and easy to understand.

What to Include in your Literature

Every publisher is different, so be sure to tailor your literature to the part [...]

Why Do Book Fairs? Revisited!

rkelly

This is my follow up to a post a few weeks ago on the importance of book fairs.

Exhibiting at a book fair provides you one of the best ways to get in front of a lot of readers and prospective readers in a relatively short amount of time. Book Fairs provide the chance to not only fair your book, but also create that all important first impression. According to a Simmons Market Research Bureau study, 85% of respondents ranked Book Fairs as "extremely useful" as a sour [...]

The Importance of Book Fairs

rkelly

Regardless of your genre, whether it's westerns or crime fiction. romance or non-fiction, decidely you will share something with writers of other genres: the need for promtotion of what you have written.

While the world wide web has made available new sytems of marketing to authors, from websites and weblogs to sites like myspace, facebook, and the small press exchange, there is still something to be said for meeting readership where they make themselves available -- small press boo [...]